I worked in cabinet shops in Baltimore in my late teens and early twenties and it never quite felt right, I wanted to experience woodworking not just do woodworking, I went to Skarie (a woodworkers supply store before the box stores moved in) for something, probably just to rummage around, and picked up Fine Woodworking “On Chairs and Beds” and one of the articles was “Green Woodworking” I followed Dave Sawyer and ten students through the process of changing a log into chairs at Drew Langsners school in NC. At the end of the article, there was contact info, I sent away for a class schedule and to my surprise mentioned there was a class in Baltimore with John Alexander and Peter Follansbee “Make A Stool From A Tree” a joinery class in accordance with 17th century New England practice.